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I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Forces Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Forces
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Forces Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Forces
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Forces Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Forces
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Forces If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Forces
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Forces "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Forces
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Forces "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Forces
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Forces A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Forces
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Forces All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Forces
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Forces If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Forces
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Forces Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Forces
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Forces Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Forces
